Dodgy plane landings

jester77 · 11-10-2013 05:42PM #1

My mate is after posting this after flying with Aer Lingus to Cardiff.

Mint Sauce · 11-10-2013 05:43PM

Not the worst.

darkpagandeath · 11-10-2013 05:46PM

Tire blow outs can be fairly common .. You do know there are normally about 4 bolts holding on the wings right ? :P in case they need to be replaced or refurbished

BlurstMonkey · 11-10-2013 05:48PM

It doesn't look bad. Stuff happens. And the plane landed safely I take it.

Celly Smunt · 11-10-2013 05:48PM

At least he's not in Cardiff anymore.

Surveyor11 · 11-10-2013 05:49PM

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one....

stimpson · 11-10-2013 05:49PM

Cardiff is a kip anyway. He'd have more fun dying in a plane crash

TeddyTedson · 11-10-2013 05:50PM

I think us mere mortals think we're getting dodgy landing a lot more often than we are. Everyone seems to have a story about a really bad landing but in reality that's just flying for you.
Seasoned flyers too wouldn't blink at much either.

wazky · 11-10-2013 05:52PM

Surveyor11 wrote: »

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one....

I would be running from that plane in the OP's post.

MadsL · 11-10-2013 05:53PM

Friend of mine put a Cessna on its roof on his second solo. He walked away and was then handed a whisky in the Pilots Club.

Dashed tricky crosswind chap, never mind.

Hande hoche! · 11-10-2013 05:55PM

MadsL wrote: »

Friend of mine put a Cessna on its roof on his second solo. He walked away and was then handed a whisky in the Pilots Club.

Dashed tricky crosswind chap, never mind.

Please tell me he was wearing a billowing scarf and a lambskin jacket.

jay93 · 11-10-2013 05:56PM

Fairly common on a ATR aircraft, Wouldn't get on one myself

seamus · 11-10-2013 05:56PM

ATR 42-300, probably an Aer Arann flight operating as Aer Lingus Regional. They've been getting a lot of bad press recently.

Can't remember where it was said, but landing a plane is basically controlled crashing. The wheel take a lot of stress, I wouldn't be exceptionally concerned about a blowout.

MadsL · 11-10-2013 06:00PM

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Please tell me he was wearing a billowing scarf and a lambskin jacket.

He has the accent for it, a former Stowe fellow, dontcha know...awfully nice chap. Has a 1912 Morris to tootle about in too...tally ho!

He no longer goes up-diddly-up-up and down-diddly-um-down though...

ScumLord · 11-10-2013 06:01PM

Usually what people consider to be bad landings are particularly good landings. If it's windy and the plane is back and over the pilot has earned their money that day, if they can safely bring the plane to a stop with a blown tire, fair play to them.

Inbox · 11-10-2013 06:03PM

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

Banjo String · 11-10-2013 06:05PM

I'd have pooped in my pants in this plane.

MadsL · 11-10-2013 06:08PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I think us mere mortals think we're getting dodgy landing a lot more often than we are. Everyone seems to have a story about a really bad landing but in reality that's just flying for you.
Seasoned flyers too wouldn't blink at much either.

You know a seasoned flyer when they press the button for another Bloody Mary after the Capt announces that one of the engines has just 'detached' mid-Atlantic. :eek:

Happened to an old boss of mine. Drank his cocktail and went back to sleep.

My wife also ended up with a pretty famous quote around the office after she was in a very nasty thunderstorm in a Cessna 172, and her pilot turned to her and said: Ma'am, I don't know what kind of peace you need to make, but I'm not liking our chances. Her response: "Oh, Death is no problem, it's Life I can't handle!"

Rubeter · 11-10-2013 06:16PM

Was with a few mates in a Cessna over Galway once and the cabin filled with smoke, we just got out and left the pilot to do whatever he had to do, he landed safely thankfully. :cool:

ElvisChrist6 · 11-10-2013 07:10PM

I've noticed Ryanair often have really shockingly hard landings, moreso than Aer Lingus. Feels like they just plop you down out of the sky!

Mint Sauce · 11-10-2013 07:15PM

Rubeter wrote: »

Was with a few mates in a Cessna over Galway once and the cabin filled with smoke, we just got out and left the pilot to do whatever he had to do, he landed safely thankfully. :cool:

What, did you jump?

Dartz · 11-10-2013 07:17PM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

I've noticed Ryanair often have really shockingly hard landings, moreso than Aer Lingus. Feels like they just plop you down out of the sky!

Different pilot training regimes I guess, along with different aircraft handling characteristics.

11-10-2013 07:22PM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

I've noticed Ryanair often have really shockingly hard landings, moreso than Aer Lingus. Feels like they just plop you down out of the sky!

Ryanair pilots fly the same way as express bus drivers drive, fast up, at the limit all the way (for maximum fuel efficiency not speed) land and get to the terminal as quickly as possible, if he can stop half way down the runway he will as it'll be a shorter taxi to the terminal. If they must taxi, then it feels like they're doing it at near take off speeds. :pac:

RustyNut · 11-10-2013 07:22PM

Rubeter wrote: »

Was with a few mates in a Cessna over Galway once and the cabin filled with smoke, we just got out and left the pilot to do whatever he had to do, he landed safely thankfully. :cool:

If that was the one caused by a roll of insulting tape in the heater duct then I was on that lift aswell. Good times.

Peregrine · 11-10-2013 07:23PM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

I've noticed Ryanair often have really shockingly hard landings, moreso than Aer Lingus. Feels like they just plop you down out of the sky!

Unless all the flights you flew on with both of them were on the same route with the same weather conditions, you really can't say that.

ElvisChrist6 · 11-10-2013 07:26PM

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Unless all the flights you flew on with both of them were on the same route with the same weather conditions, you really can't say that.

Well, I did notice it...
Regardless, almost every time I've flown Ryanair, it's been a rougher landing than Aer Lingus.

cml387 · 11-10-2013 07:31PM

Isn't it odd that a thread discussing an Aer Lingus/Aer Arann mishap finishes up bashing Ryanair, who seem today (as everyday) to have landed all their planes without bits exploding or blowing up.

Rubeter · 11-10-2013 09:24PM

RustyNut wrote: »

If that was the one caused by a roll of insulting tape in the heater duct then I was on that lift aswell. Good times.

Fucking great times.
Well well, I wondered if anyone might recognise the circumstance, I can still remember it like yesterday. Will give you a pm later, or in the morning.

Happy days, do you still jump?

Rubeter · 11-10-2013 09:27PM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

What, did you jump?

Quite happily. It was great to have the option, not one the pilot had.

RustyNut · 11-10-2013 10:52PM

Rubeter wrote: »

Fucking great times.
Well well, I wondered if anyone might recognise the circumstance, I can still remember it like yesterday. Will give you a pm later, or in the morning.
Happy days, do you still jump?

Yea, still do the occasional chase the base just to keep the knees in the breeze. You didn't move to Kerry since by any chance?

Rubeter · 11-10-2013 11:04PM

RustyNut wrote: »

Yea, still do the occasional chase the base just to keep the knees in the breeze. You didn't move to Kerry since by any chance?

Check your pm's.
I can't get over bumping into someone here from what must be 20 years ago, nice one.

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